Shrapnel

Went and had our feet done this morning and ,as usual, I took Toby, the Beagle for a walk. The farmer had recently ploughed one of the fields by the path and turned up these. Scrap from WW2. The one on the left with the hole in it is the tailend of a small, say 200 pounder, aerial bomb, as dropped by aircraft. It must have been an unexploded bomb as the screwthread is where the fuse was fitted. The smaller bit is the remains of the fuse of a British 25pounder Shell. It has the War Office double arrow stamped into it and the number 119, which was one of the many fuses that could be used with that gun. Quite how that got there I don't know. The bomb was likely a dud that was dropped on Xanten on the 28th of Febuary 1945, when the town was flattened. Likely it was defused by a Bomb Disposal squad ( Brave fellows) and then carted outside of town with other dud or damaged ordnance and exploded. Then 70years later I find it, The fickle finger of fate! Anyone want them to show their children?